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GOOD: When used without an adjective modifier (like "final" good or "intermediate" good), this generically means a physical, tangible product used to satisfy people's wants and needs . This term good should be contrasted with the term service, which captures the intangible satisfaction of wants and needs. As such, you will frequently see the plural combination of these two phrases together "goods and services" to indicate the wide assortment of economic goods produced using the economy's scarce resources. As you might imagine this general notion of wants and needs satisfying goods and services pops up throughout the study of economics.
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MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION A market structure characterized by a large number of small firms, similar but not identical products sold by all firms, relative freedom of entry into and exit out of the industry, and extensive knowledge of prices and technology. This is one of four basic market structures. The other three are perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopoly. Monopolistic competition approximates most of the characteristics of perfect competition, but falls short of reaching the ideal benchmark that IS perfect competition. It is the best approximation of perfect competition that the real world offers.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time browsing through a long list of dot com websites wanting to buy either a flower arrangement in a coffee cup for your father or a how-to book on meeting people. Be on the lookout for the happiest person in the room.
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General Electric is the only stock from the original 1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average remaining in the current index.
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. " -- Plato, philosopher
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AFA
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